Set in Dunnet Landing, Maine in a summer of the late 1800s, "The Country of the Pointed Firs," is the story of a female writer seeking isolation and inspiration for her writing in a small coastal New England town. Rich with the dialect of the region and the culture of the time "The Country of the Po[...]
"The Country of Pointed Firs", Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece, established her among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction. Composed in a series of beautiful web-like sketches, the novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to work one summer in the Maine[...]
A writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, where she follows the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal towns. Here, lives are molded by the long Maine winters, rock-filled fields and strong resourceful women.
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Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett's first novel, A Country Doctor," " is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical [...]
Written by Gardner Fox, Dennis O'Neil and others Art by Gil Kane, Sid Greene, Murphy Anderson, Dick Dillin and others Cover by Kane Collecting THE ATOM #18-38 and stories from THE ATOM AND HAWKMAN #39-45! Advance-solicited; on sale August 13, 528 pg, B&W, $16.99 US[...]